VML-9/20/00

[Guest guest]

There is this strongly conservative tendency in human nature: we do

not like to move one step forward. I think of mankind just as I read

of persons who become frozen in snow; all such, they say, want to go

to sleep. and if you try to drag them up they say. " Let me sleep: it

is so beautiful to sleep in the snow, and they die there in that

sleep.